Spring 2003 - SCSU Real Estate Alumni Association

SCSU
REAL ESTATE
A L U M N I
ASSOCIATION
SCSU REAL ESTATE ALUMNI
NEWSLETTER
VOLUME 5, ISSUE 1
SPRING 2003
2003 SCSU REAA Winter Banquet: “Boogie-In” At The Fine Line Music Café.
A special thank you to everyone who attended the 2003
SCSU REAA Winter Banquet on February 13th at The
Fine Line Music Café. We had a great turnout of both
alumni and current students!
outing, make an effort to attend this year. Pebble
Creek is a great golf course and the food is awesome!
Stefanie Meyer
(2002 to 2003
president),
Ashley
Ferguson
scholarship
recipient, Tony
Kuechle (2003
to 2004
president) from
left to right
The evening began with a social hour followed by a
wonderful buffet dinner and awards program. We were
then entertained with music by the premiere superstar
disco band of the Twin Cities, Boogie Wonderland.
Thankfully we were able to have our Winter Banquet
before The Fine Line went up in flames the following
week.
Congratulations to Marketplace Home Mortgage as they
are the recipient of this year’s “Outstanding Corporate
Support Award”. Since the company was established,
Keith White of Marketplace has donated an incredible
amount of money and resources to this Association and
has hired numerous SCSU grads. Also congratulations
to Ashley Ferguson, this years student scholarship
recipient.
Mark your calendars for the 2003 Golf Classic on
th
Thursday, August 7 at Pebble Creek Golf Club in
Becker. If you weren’t able to attend last year’s golf
We will be looking for a fresh change in venue for both
the 2004 SCSU REAA Winter Banquet and 2004 Golf
Classic, and we would love to get your feed back.
Please drop me an email with any suggestions at
[email protected].
Sincerely,
Rob Loftus
MOONEY’S MEMOS
Hi all,
We're just back from spring break and it's St. Patrick's Day. I don't know if many of
you know, but the P. in Steven P. Mooney is for Patrick, after my father Patrick
Mooney. While in Northern Ireland in 1993 I stood at St. Patrick's grave. My greatgrandfather (also Patrick Mooney) is one of twins who came over from Ireland during
the potatoe famine in about 18xx, I can't remember when. This is already getting too
long.
Life at SCSU is fun and challenging. This is Dr. Gary Sneide's last year with us in the
FIRE Dept., he is currently planning on getting back into the real estate industry. I
want to thank Gary for six years of dedicated service to not only the Real Estate
program at SCSU, but also to the Finance program. He has had a very positive
impact on the many many students he served in his position. Thanks Gary!
Unfortunately, thanks to our new governor's ill advised campaign promise, we will not
be able to replace Gary next year. This means instead of our current 10 members in
the FIRE Dept., we will be down to 9. Obviously, we can’t teach as many students
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What’s In This Issue?
Winter Banquet
Mooney’s Memo
A Word From The President
Dr. Sneide Says Farewell
Revised Board Member Info
This Year’s Graduates
The Student Connection
Movers And Shakers
Upcoming Events
WE ARE IN THE PROCESS
OF
ASSEMBLING
THE
NEW ALUMNI DIRECTORY.
PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT
TO VISIT THE WEBSITE
AND
UPDATE
YOUR
INFORMATION TODAY!
WWW.SCSUREA.ORG
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MOONEY’S MEMOS - CONTINUED
with nine faculty as we can with ten. The $60 million the governor is adding to
the student grants program is coming out of the operating budgets of the U of
M and MNSCU. But since 40% or 60% (I can't remember which) of that
money goes to students at private colleges, it is a funding shift from public
schools to private schools. That is not clear to most tax payers, I don't think
that is the purpose of tax dollars. So, if you feel inclined to write a legislator
that wouldn't be a bad thing.
Major wise, we continue to grow. We currently have about 78 declared Real
Estate majors. We'll have about 15-20 graduating this May. Some have jobs
already, but most of them are still open to offers. Check your resume books
and see who your firm may be interested in.
Finally, I would like to thank Stacy Hemming for her many years of service on
the Real Estate Alumni Board. She has been a tireless worker on behalf of
the students of the real estate program. Stacy initiated the career nights put
on for the students by the alums, which have turned out to be highly
successful and are currently being handled, also quite successfully, by
Jessica Morgan and Jesseka Zellmer. I believe that the growth in the
program at SCSU can be partially attributed to the excellent work done by
Stacy over these many years. Thanks Stacy!
President
Tony Kuechle (952) 893-8291
[email protected]
Commodore
Stefanie Meyer (952) 893-7599
[email protected]
Vice President
Josie Klaverkamp (651) 603-5085
[email protected]
Treasurer
Dan Schumann (952) 831-8384
[email protected]
Secretary
Kelly Oertli (952) 837-8406
[email protected]
Social/Event Coordinators
Mike Petroske (612) 219-3862
[email protected]
Rob Loftus (952) 893-8753
[email protected]
That's all, my fingers are getting tired. Have a great spring and summer, we'll
see you at the golf outing.
Kris Smeltzer (952) 837-8575
[email protected]
Steve
Newsletter Editor
Tony Johnson (651) 603-5074
[email protected]
p.s. Kate and I became grandparents February 2nd! Ashton Aaron Mooney.
Scholarship Director
Greg McMillian (952) 837-8577
[email protected]
A WORD FROM THE PRESIDENT
Dear Alumni:
I want to thank all of you who attended the Winter Banquet in Minneapolis. The
event was once again well attended by both Alumni and Students.
As I mentioned at the Banquet, I have two goals for our organization this year.
The first is to expand and further strengthen the success of the Student Relations
Program. I believe we can do this in two-fold, by volunteering to actively
participate in the Mentor Banquet and/or mentoring existing students, and
continuing to work with the students on information and career-orientated
seminars to increase the enrollment.
My second goal for 2003 is to continue to grow the Scholarship Fund. This year
we were able to endow $10,000 for a self-funding scholarship due to the past
generosity of the Alumni and profitability of prior alumni events. I ask for your
continued support of the Scholarship Fund with direct financial assistance and
attendance of the All-Alumni events.
Sincerely,
Tony Kuechle
Student Relations
Jessica Morgan (651) 603-5059
[email protected]
Jesseka Zellmer (612) 436 - 2202
[email protected]
Website Coordinator
Brett Hall
(651) 237-0404
[email protected]
Historian
Stephanie Nyhus (651) 296-0335
[email protected]
SCSU Department Head
Dr. Steve Mooney (320) 255-3074
[email protected]
DR. SNEIDE SAYS FAREWELL
As most of you know, I will not be returning to SCSU in the fall. And although academia has been my life for the
past twenty-odd years, I will likely leave it in order to stay in the St. Cloud-Twin Cities area. At this writing my future
is somewhat uncertain, but I am confident I will soon find a home for my skills and talents.
As I leave SCSU, I leave with many fond memories of you all—those of you who were always alumni to me, and
those of you who were first students to me and now are alumni. First off, I wish to thank those alums who took time
out of their busy schedules to come back to St. Cloud to speak to my classes: The teams of Keith White/Jon
Peterson and Stacy Hemming/Mike Petroske of Marketplace Home Mortgage; Keith Sturm of Upland Real Estate
CONGRATS TO THIS YEAR’S GRADUATES
December 2002
Matt Barnes
Penny Benson
Jon Bishop
Francis Dourou
Adrienne Garcia Jaime Huisenga
Jason Lang
May 2003
Calvin Belt
Rob Bunch
Kristin Greiner Tony Letizia
Cory Mergen
Seth Muller
Amanda Novacek
THE STUDENT CONNECTION
DR. SNEIDE SAYS FAREWELL - CONTINUED
We would first like to give a big THANK YOU to Deb
Vannelli for her commitment to the Alumni Association.
Deb has been part of the association for over seven
years and has worked with Student Relations for
approximately five years. During this time, Deb has
shown her strong commitment to the organization by
donating her time and successfully bringing the
students and alumni together. Thanks for all of your
work Deb!
Group; and Jessica Morgan from Glaser Financial. Second, I
want to publicly thank those of you, too numerous to mention,
who come to St. Cloud time after time, year after year, to put on
career nights, senior banquets, and other events for the SCSU
real estate students. And last but far from least, I wish to thank
those of you who have led and continue to lead the SCSU Real
Estate Alumni Association. Without your leadership, none of
these great things would be happening—you enrich this program
so much!
We held a Student Information Night at D.B. Searle’s
on November 14th. We had one of the largest student
turnouts to date. That night’s huge success can largely
be attributed to the speakers. We would like to
personally thank Beth Brown, Mark Moorhouse, Mike
Petroske, Kurt Wilczek, Elizabeth Valentine, Deb
Vannelli, and Stefanie Meyer for speaking as well as
Stacy Hemming and Steve Mooney for helping
organize the event. Additionally, thank you to all of the
students who attended.
We held a Graduation Dinner at Anton’s in St. Cloud on
December 10th for all of the students graduating in the
2002-2003 school year. Approximately 24 students
attended.
FYI – there are always students searching for jobs or
internships at the Student Information Nights and
Graduation Dinner – it would be a great place for your
company to seek out students to hire. Please let us
know if you are interested in participating or if you have
any job openings.
The next Student Information Night will be held at D.B.
Searle’s on April 17th. The Student Information Night
is designed to give the students a better perspective of
a broad range of careers available to Real Estate
majors and to educate them of the real estate industry
in general. Additionally, the Student Night allows
Alumni and students to network and establish potential
career opportunities.
Jessica Morgan & Jesseka Zellmer
Student Liaisons
Perhaps the greatest reward of teaching is watching students
come into the program as relatively naïve sophomores or juniors
and become mature, competent, and knowledgeable graduates
and successful alumi. Throughout that process, fond memories
were generated. Here are a few (and I apologize if I forgot you—
I’m beginning to have “senior moments”)….
Listening to the groans when you heard the name “Anita
Bigg Loan” for the first time… watching the lights come
on when you successfully created your first nested IF
statement… doing my Buddy Holly imitation on the
karaoke machine at Nate Arnold’s graduation party…
watching Carl Awalt work a room and throw house
parties… visiting Nathan Bliss in the hospital… trying to
keep the two Tim Heilands separate… Nikola Blagojevic
dog-sitting for me… Craig Theis telling jokes…Ryan
Doyle’s internship presentation… the Doyle-JacobsHogan graduation party…Jeff Horstmann sleeping in
class… Sara Leyk’s driving… the Dance Club Diva (you
know who she is)… Jess Morgan trying to out-do Craig
Theis…
Erika Carlson, Josh Arsenault, Matt
Gersemehl, and a host of others in the homecoming
parade limo… getting a real Hawaiian flower lei from
Alana Forlenza at graduation… Amanda Hotaling’s and
Jesseka Zellmer’s grad party… Seth Muller riding me
about quitting smoking (successfully, I might add)…
Matt Barnes appraising my house… seeing pics of
Corey Mergen in Chicago… Golf outings at Mooneys…
and on and on.
For the time being, I will be in Saint Cloud. Stop by or give a call
if you get back to town—320-529-0167. My home email address
is [email protected]
My best to you all,
Gary Sneide
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Seth Redfield moved to Equity Commercial and is working as a senior property manager.
Adrienna Garcia is working for the City of Plymouth as an appraiser.
Dean Jacobs is working for Deloitte & Touche as a manager for property tax services.
Joel Torberg is working as a broker for Equity Commercial.
Josie Klaverkamp moved to Glaser Financial Group and is working as an underwriter.
Amanda Hotaling is working for Diversified Real Estate Services as an appraiser.
Jaime Huisenga is working for REMAX as a realtor.
Ashley Ferguson was awarded a scholarship at this year’s winter banquet.
Jerry Lindeen opened his own real estate executive recruiting firm, National Real Estate
Recruiting. He asked me to note that If your company is looking for employees or if you are
looking for a new position and need some assistance you can contact him at (952) 445-5970
or at [email protected].
UPCOMING EVENTS:
I’VE MOVED
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• Golf Outing – August 7th, 2003 at Pebble Creek Golf Course
We hope to have the new alumni directory completed by the time of the golf outing
EDITOR’S NOTE
If you have changed jobs or
addresses be sure to go
online to www.scsurea.org
and update your information
so that our 2003 directory
will be accurate!!!
SCSU Real Estate Alumni Association
7455 France Avenue South
PMB #274
Edina, MN 55435
I am always looking for new ideas to improve our newsletter. If you
have any suggestions I would love to hear them. Also, if you know of
anyone deserving of special recognition, let me know and I will include
him/her in the next issue under Movers and Shakers. I can best be
reached by email at [email protected]. As a reminder, we
post the newsletter online at www.scsurea.org. Thank you to all for
your contributions, and I’ll see you at Pebble Creek in August!
Sincerely,
Tony Johnson